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Mark Peterspresident@ans.org
It is both an honor and a privilege to begin my term as president of the American Nuclear Society. I am deeply grateful for the trust placed in me by the membership, and I look forward to serving this remarkable Society over the coming year.
I would also like to recognize the leadership of my predecessor, Hash Hashemian, as well as the dedication of ANS CEO Craig Piercy, our staff, and countless volunteers. ANS succeeds because people choose to contribute their time, expertise, and energy in service of a mission larger than themselves.
We begin this year at a moment of tremendous opportunity for nuclear science and technology. Around the world, there is growing recognition that nuclear energy and nuclear technologies are essential to addressing some of society’s most pressing challenges. At the same time, advances in areas ranging from medical isotopes and fusion to space nuclear systems and advanced reactors are creating new possibilities for innovation and impact.
Ray S. Booth
Nuclear Technology | Volume 198 | Number 2 | May 2017 | Pages 217-227
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2017.1299494
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Functionals derived from the finite Laplace transforms of time moments of experimental data are used to fit these data to exponential functions. The functionals provide linear relationships for individually determining parameter values successively. This new and unique fitting method is first derived and then applied to data containing up to four exponentials to demonstrate its capabilities. Advantages of this fitting procedure include the following. (1) Parameters of the fit can be determined from the data region where they are most important by a wide verity of methods, including conventional ones. (2) Fitting algorithms are available that are simple to program; use conventional “stripping techniques”; are quite robust; and have been tested for a wide range in the number of data points, statistical errors, data ranges, and parameter values. (3) Fitting algorithms are included that use the conventional correlation coefficient of two expressions to fit data with even or uneven time intervals. (4) Decay constants and their associated magnitudes are determined separately and independently from different functionals. (5) Each iteration of the fit requires relatively few computations, usually only selected integrals, which can be completed quite rapidly. (6) Parameter errors can be estimated by conventional techniques.